Zheng Lizhong, convener of the ECC on the mainland and executive vice president of ARATS, and Jiang Yaoping, the mainland's chief negotiator for the ECC, will lead a mainland delegation to attend the ECC meeting.

The ARATS and SEF delegations, joined by officials from Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs who led the negotiations, met Monday afternoon to discuss Tuesday's business that will include a morning session to approve the document and an afternoon signing ceremony.

Speaking at the same news conference, ARATS Vice President Zheng Lizhong affirmed Kao's remarks, saying, ''Both sides have an interest in an ECFA, and views and opinions to be exchanged will definitely be positive.

The official confirmed that the terms of the BIA have been mutually finalized; moreover, Chen of ARATS will arrive in Taiwan on August 8 to meet his Taiwanese counterpart the following day to sign the agreement and the Cross-Strait Customs Cooperation Agreement at the Grand Hotel in Taipei.

Zheng Lizhong, vice chairman of ARATS, reported that the meeting of cross-Strait economic cooperation committees will review the implementation of ECFA, the progress in the works of the committees' six working task forces, and mutual effort in servicing investors from both sides.

Chen Yunlin, chief of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, ARATS, China's semiofficial agency in charge of relations with Taiwan, and Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of ARATS' counterpart in Taiwan, will meet Thursday, an SEF official said by phone Monday, requesting anonymity because of press rules.

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